A FAMILY MOMENT: Caguing brothers play together for first timeWith time ticking off the game clock, and Kodiak trailing Wasilla by double figures, coach David Anderson peered down the bench and motioned to three players. Chris Caguing, Brian Caguing and Augistine Caguing all stood up, strolled to the scorers’ table and nestled side-by-side on one knee waiting for a whistle. The whistle finally came with 1 minute, 10 seconds left in last Saturday’s game, and for the first and...

Kodiak girls advance to semifinalsIt wasn’t easy, but in the end Kodiak moved one victory away from a repeat trip to state. The third-seeded Bears escaped the upset-minded Palmer Moose with a 35-30 victory in a Northern Lights Conference opening-round girls basketball game Thursday at Kenai High School. “Palmer came into the game with nothing to lose and gave it everything they had,” Kodiak coach Krista Hicks said. Kodiak slides into a 3 p.m. semi...

Palmer blasts Kodiak boysBy the time Kodiak found its shooting touch, it was already too late to save the season. Palmer scored the game’s first eight points and never looked back, handing Kodiak a 77-61 loss in a Northern Lights Conference opening-round boys basketball game Thursday at Kenai High School. The Bears, last year’s NLC champions, scored more points in the fourth quarter (33) than they had through the first three quarters (28)...

Cancer support org expands teen contest to AlaskaThe Seattle chapter of a cancer support organization is expanding their teen writing contest to students from Alaska. The Seattle chapter of Gilda’s Club, a community-based organization that seeks to provide support to people with cancer and their families and friends, has held the writing contest each year since 2006 for Washington teens in ninth grade through 12th grade that have been affected in some way by can...

ESS hoops season ends The Kodiak Emerging Small Schools’ basketball season came to an end Thursday in Anchorage. After beating Nanwalek, 72-30, Thursday morning, the Ravens fell to Wasilla Lake, 79-60, to bow out of the Peninsula Conference Championships at Lumen Christi High School. “We played really good,” ESS coach Ross Elvehjem said. “Playing two games inside of six hours is kind of hard.” ESS concluded its season with a 3-11 recor...

Patrol vessel Stimson likely to move from Unalaska to KodiakThe largest patrol vessel in the state’s inventory will likely be relocated from Unalaska to Kodiak in a move aimed at saving the state almost half a million dollars. Unalaska officials say budgetary constraints have made it impossible to keep the 156-foot Stimson, the Wildlife Troopers’ biggest vessel, and the transfer to the Emerald Isle is all but a done deal. The wildlife troopers’ second-largest patrol vessel...

Public Safety Blotter: March 5Feb. 5 Around 1:22 a.m., police conducted two bar checks downtown. At 9:15 a.m., police conducted a routine animal patrol of the Monashka area. At 9:59 a.m., police responded to an abandoned vehicle on Baranof Street. It will be moved. At 10:01 a.m., a caller reported animals on Woodland Drive. The owner was cited for loose dogs. At 10:49 a.m., a caller on Cottonwood Circle reported a dog broke into his yard and k...

ITN accepting films for festivalIsland Trails Network is seeking locally produced films for the sixth annual Kodiak Outdoor Film Festival. The submission guidelines state that films must fit the theme of “outdoors” or “adventure” and must be mainly acted and shot in the Kodiak archipelago, Katmai National Park or outlying waters. Films cannot exceed 10 minutes in length and will be divided into two categories – less than five minutes and less th...

Report shows Kodiak has third-highest foreign-born residentsThe Kodiak Island Borough has the third-highest number of foreign-born residents of all borough or census areas in the state of Alaska, according to the latest “Alaska Economic Trends” report produced by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Kodiak comes in with 14 percent behind the Aleutians East Borough with 57 percent and the Aleutians West Census Area with 35 percent. No other areas in the...